Is it normal for a president to ask to borrow a painting for the private residence?
This is the painting he wanted. Wonder what about this image spoke to him?
Probably just the name “Van Gogh”. He’s one of the few artists Trump recognizes, along with Michelangelo, Raphael, Donatello, Leonardo, and Splinter.
He should probably go with something that better fits his degree of cultural literacy.
It matches the sofa.
Not a new tale.
“I’m All Alone in a Palace of Stone” from 1926. Trying to care for an old millionaire, wasting the best of my years.
I see your 1926, and raise you 1899. And her beauty was sold/for an old man’s gold/she’s a bird in a gilded cage.
Politico: An affair with Trump? Haley rebuts ‘disgusting’ rumors
“That’s just, wow…gross,” Haley said between dry heaves.
“I mean, have you seen-- he’s just…” Her voice drifted off before adding, “Thanks, seriously, now I’m going to have trouble sleeping for weeks.”
That link does’t go where you think it does…
But is somehow appropriate. 
Ha! Thanking Zeus it was just something on thermophilic compost.
Painted by C Coolidge! Wow, I thought his hobby was miming.
Yes.
“President Coolidge, I bet my husband I could get you to say more than two words about your paintings of those dogs playing poker.”
“You lose.”
Jags @15952: It figgers those fancy Kennedys wanted a French painting. I betcha Tricky Dick asked for a Grant Wood. And the Reagans hung up a Margaret Keane original.
It’s sort of silly (and this may not be the best thread to mention it), but …
The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists has set the Doomsday Clock to two minutes before Midnight.
This is the closest to Armageddon we’ve been since 1960 when the clock was finally retarded from 11:58 to 11:53 due to U.S.-Soviet cooperation at Pugwash and re: Suez.
This is the closest we’re ever been to Armageddon, according to that Clock.
The Bulletin’s announcement is a detailed list of threats and recommendations; here are just some highlights:
I don’t know why anyone would build a doomsday clock in the first place. Can’t it be dismantled?
It would be more meaningful if they could move the thing from, like, 4pm to 615pm. But I’ll keep my objections to the DC in this thread, thanks.
'Splain this to me, People Smarter Than I Am:
Schumer goes to thump and says, “Okay, you make a deal for the Dreamers and I’ll support money for the wall.”
Thump says, “No dice, loser! Get outta my face!”
Then thump says to the world at large, “Here’s my new idea that I thought of all on my own without any help from Cryin’ Chuck Schumer: I’ll agree to a bigly deal for the Dreamers, if I also get money for the wall.”
Did thump reject Schumer’s idea so he could [del]steal it[/del] make it his own and get credit for it?
…which is not to say you left too soon…
Not exactly “dismantled” per se, but there’s this nice self-destruct button, if you’d care to risk it…